Welcome to the Irish Times Live GAA Blog. The focus is exclusively on Semple Stadium today with two mouth-watering All Ireland Senior Hurling quarter-finals.

The first match involves arguably the story of the summer so far, the Wexford hurlers. Their journey is hurling's answer to War and Peace, a long narrative that they will hope to extend further this afternoon.

Their opponents Limerick lost their Munster title in Cork last time out but still scored 0-24 in Pairc Ui Chaoimh on a day when they wouldn't have been happy with their performance.

Nicky English and Keith Duggan, both of this parish, have gone for Wexford and Limerick respectively, a statement to illustrate how opinion is divided on the matter of who will win.

There seems to be less doubt about the outcome in the second match, Tipperary heavily fancied to take out Anthony Daly'sDublin.

Joanne Cantwell asks Anthony Daly if he thinks it's a big day for him as well his team. In fairness to the Dubs boss he laughs and replies that he thought that speculation wouldn't start until after the match.

Hard to escape the feeling that this game is just gently freewheeling to a conclusion. Tipperary just doing enough at the moment. Dublin not able to cut out the errors for long enough to rally on the scoreboard.

It'll be a tough journey home for Dublin and Wexford, players, management and supporters. Neither team properly represented their talent on the day and that will hurt more than anything in the short term.

17:45

Limerick and Tipperary deserve credit for the way they hurled on the day.

Dublin manager Anthony Daly: "We have lost out heavily to Kilkenny and Tipp. You can't hide from that. I came with a dream of winning an All Ireland quarter-final there is plenty of time over the next two weeks to think about the (future)."

18:00

Daly, a seriously impressive individual not least for his candour and honesty, said he'd think about whether he's extend his six year stay as Dublin manager.

18:01

So it's into August and there are just four hurling teams standing....Cork, Tipperary, Limerick and Kilkenny.

Next weekend it's back to the football for the Live Blog. Thanks for your input.